Package: sane Version: 1.0.14-4 Severity: normal After the installation of sane, there was no choice given to add any user to the scanner group. Instead, I had to figure out the name of the group first (as I thought it'd be saned first) and then add myself with vigr/vigr -s. The package should somehow inform about it. At the very minimum, there should be a README.Debian entry about it. A better choice would be generic Debian way of letting the user add logins to the group which handles the most common situation (single-user machines) without annoying those who have hundreds of users.
How to promote group additions to currently running processes (i.e. within the user's session) is probably not possible without kernel modifications. However, such modifications should be advocated medium-term for increased user friendlyness, it affects many packages which add groups at installation time. Maybe a wiki page is in order (didn't check this yet). To summarise, most of the info contained in this report is probably wishlist (want to hear feedback first), but at least the missing README.Debian entry is of higher severity and should be fixed soon. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sane depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.6-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libgimp2.0 2.4.0~rc2-1 Libraries necessary to run the GIM ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libieee1284-3 0.2.10-5 cross-platform library for paralle ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsane 1.0.19~cvs20070505-2 API library for scanners ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra sane recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
